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Got the lumber delivered yesterday. A dude drove up in an 18-wheeler, parked, climbed in the back, and drove out with our wood and concrete on a pallet. Put it in the driveway, handed me a piece of paper, and then drove away. I coated both sides of the wood with sealant, then Jen . . . → Read More: Decking update The MN zoo needs to airlift a turtle. Where is this sea turtle coming from? Why, the Sea Turtle Hospital in Topsail, North Carolina, of course! Some dumb kid got her hand bitten by the meercats at the MN zoo, and her parents refused to give her the rabies shots, so instead the meercats had to be euthanized to test them for rabies. The whole family of meercats died because (a) the parents didn’t keep their kid out of the . . . → Read More: Poor Meercats! I’ve been talking about the deck. Here are some pictures. Been a while since I posted random links. Of course, all of them are ganked from jwz. Duh. . . . → Read More: Random links So, my web site is totally FUBAR now. I’ve spent a couple of hours on the phone bouncing between The old resistrar and the new one, and it will hopefully be resolved in the next several days. I allowed my registration with Register.com to expire, before initiating the transfer to Godaddy.com. Once the registration . . . → Read More: Random dwan.org suffered a catastrophic lack of attention over the weekend. I’m straightening it out with the hosting company now, but all email and web services there are offline for the moment. Should be back within 24 hours. Yesterday, redmed and I went after the deck, like a rat terrier going after rats, except in a more focused and obsessive compulsive way. The decking is gone, the steps are going, and two support posts have been set in 320lbs of concrete. We’re re-supporting the deck now that we’ve seen what was holding it . . . → Read More: Deck |
